Cleanup

In preparing to go live, I'm going through the past entries and making sure that they're consistent with what I'm doing now, and attempting to validate (W3C HTML Validation Service) [1] my documents to HTML 4.01 Strict [2].

So far it's taken me a few hours to go through December 1999 [3], January 2000 [4] and February 2000 [5] and the current entries [6]. And in doing so, I found out a couple of things I didn't know about specifying URL (Universal Resource Locator)s within the <A> tag: **You have to escape any ampersands in the URL!**

News to me, but I suppose if I read the spec carefully enough it would be apparent, and all the browsers I checked (Lynx, Netscape, Mozilla and Microsoft IE) all handled it correctly.

So it looks like that I might want to add code that accepts the entries to make corrections in the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code I type in. Maybe even include the code I wrote earlier [7] so I can still type “ and not &#8220;.

[1] http://validator.w3.org/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd

[3] /boston/1999/12

[4] /boston/2000/01

[5] /boston/2000/02

[6] /boston/2001/10/13-20

[7] /boston/2001/10/20.1

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